Cast thy burden upon the LORD

Q: What does the Bible say about casting burdens upon the Lord?

The Bible encourages believers to cast their burdens upon the Lord, as He promises to sustain them (Psalm 55:22). Psalm 55:22 states, 'Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.' This verse highlights the profound care of God for His people. When we experience burdens—whether they are emotional, physical, or spiritual—we are invited to bring them before the Lord. This act of casting our burdens implies trust in His sovereignty and ability to bear the weight of our struggles, rather than relying on our own strength to manage our difficulties. The Lord’s assurance that He 'shall sustain thee' serves as a promise that He will provide the necessary support to help us endure our trials.

Q: How do we know God sustains the righteous?

God's word assures us that He will not allow the righteous to be moved, providing them with unfailing support (Psalm 55:22). Psalm 55:22 emphasizes God's promise: 'He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.' This assurance rests on the character of God, who is the protector and sustainer of His people. The righteous, those justified by faith in Christ, are not exempt from challenges or burdens, but they have the unique assurance that God will safeguard their faith and keep them secure in Him. Historical examples, such as Peter's denial and restoration, illustrate how God's grace upholds His people even in their failures, further reinforcing our confidence in His sustaining power throughout our trials.

Q: Why is it important for Christians to cast their burdens on God?

Casting our burdens on God fosters reliance on Him and strengthens our faith amid life's challenges. The act of casting our burdens upon the Lord is vital for Christians as it encourages a deeper reliance on God rather than ourselves. Life's trials often lead to feelings of isolation and inadequacy; hence, surrendering our burdens allows us to experience God's peace and assurance. This practice helps cultivate a spirit of prayer, inviting God into our struggles, as evidenced in the prayers of Christ in Gethsemane. Additionally, it reminds us that we are not alone in our battles; God is intimately involved and promises to support us through His strength and grace. Thus, by regularly laying our concerns before Him, we are continuously strengthened in our faith and walk with Him.

Seeking for the help of the Lord, I direct your prayerful attention to Psalm 55 and reading from our text, verse 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Psalm 55 and verse 22. There are three points I want to make before coming to my main three points.

The first one is this, that this psalm is one of several psalms in keeping with Psalm 41, Psalm 69 and Psalm 109. It prophesies, foretells of Judas Iscariot what he was to our Lord as an adversary, as a friend that turned enemy and betrayer, and the solemn curses and solemn words that are written against him. It is quite a remarkable thing that such an event, such a character, of which our Lord said that he was appointed and that he went to his place, should be foretold so prominently and with so many serious words spoken against him and his house, his wife, his children. These things are spoken of in these psalms, Psalm 109 especially. And you think, why such an emphasis for telling this.

In this particular psalm, we have from verse 12, for it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne him. Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him. But he was thou a man mine equal, my guide and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of God. in company. This is speaking of Judas Iscariot.

In the scriptures the Lord declares the reason why he tells things beforehand was so that men could not say, well they knew about this anyway, and so that they would know that the Lord knew what was going to come to pass. that it was decreed, it was appointed, and as our Lord said, I lay down my life on myself, no man taketh my life from me.

These events and this solemn character Judas, and of course we have this parallel with David with Ahithophel, and It clearly sets forth, as many of the Psalms do, God's seal upon Calvary, upon the sufferings, the death, the arraigning of our Lord Jesus Christ before the judgment, and all that was foretold of Him.

Every small aspect of those scriptures that were fulfilled, they reinforce the Church of God. the truth of what has happened and what God has brought about by His counsel. Peter sums it up very clearly, ye have taken by wicked hands, crucified and slain. But then he says this, he that was delivered by the determinate counsel of God, ye have taken by wicked hands, crucified and slain. And he traces it up to the determinate counsel of God. It's a great mystery to us that God's sovereignty is a pointing of all things that come to pass, that God is not the author of evil, and those that are used in these things, they are guilty, they are culpable in what they do. And Peter again is very clear, by wicked hands have taken and slain.

There are many things that we might say we cannot reconcile in the Word of God, but we believe them because they are set forth and we know the Word of God is truth. And upon our Lord's sufferings, His death, His betrayal, hangs the whole Church of God, their hope in the salvation, not fought by man, not brought to the Lord unwilling, but appointed of God. And so I made that point as the first point here, one of these psalms that is pointing to our Lord Jesus Christ, to what He suffered, what He endured by being betrayed by one of the twelve, one so close unto Him. and David won't be the last, our Lord won't be the last that suffers in that way.

But then secondly, who the verse of our text concerns. Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. Who the verse concerns is the righteous. And again we point in two ways. Firstly our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We read of man there is none righteous, no not one. The Lord Jesus Christ alone is the only righteous one in himself.

And so this psalm and what this verse points to is the righteous but also the people of God that are accounted righteous in God's sight through the righteousness imputed to them. In Jeremiah we have two places where both the church and their God have the same surname. This is the name wherewith he shall be called the Lord our righteousness And this is the name wherewith she shall be called the Lord our righteousness, the Church and the Lord Jesus Christ. Of course, where the Lord works in the sinner's heart, that person, by God's grace, will work righteous works.

They're not sinless, they're not spotless, but they will have a sanctified, changed, godly life, different from the world, the world noticing it, and as the Apostle Paul says, I am crucified unto the world and the world unto me. In other words, I do not want the world, and the world does not want me. It is a neutral separation, if you like. The Lord says, I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

And so, who is spoken of here, tasks thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee. This is the righteous. I would mention in identifying the righteous, there's many of the Lord's dear people who begin to realize and to know they're amongst the righteous as the Lord works in their hearts and in their lives. And often when they walk out, a verse like this, perhaps fearing and thinking, Am I really amongst the righteous? Am I one of the Lords? But in the Lord proving the blessing and the answers, it is proved whose they are and whom they serve.

We would not want to put this barrier on a verse like this and say, that this will only apply if you can truly say that you're amongst the righteous, otherwise this verse is not for you. We would not put that bar. The invitations, the conditions of the people of God, they're the things that mark them out when they're drawn to the word, drawn to texts that are for the righteous. drawn to those blessings that belong to them and earnestly covet those best gifts and it marks out really whose they are. But the third thing is, there's a wonderful statement at the end of this verse.

He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. God shall not, the Lord Jehovah, who is spoken of here, shall never allow the righteous to be moved. They will not be moved out of the way, out of the covenant, out of their trust in the Lord. They shall hold on their word. whether it is the Lord Jesus Christ, he shall not be moved.

His face was set to Jerusalem, and he fulfilled and accomplished that which was set before him. And for the people of God as well, they shall endure unto the end, not for their own strength, not for their own righteousness, not for anything in them, but this beautiful promise, he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. What a contrast!

In this psalm and those other psalms is spoken of Judas and he was amongst the twelve and he was moved right out of the way, proved to be apostate. We have Peter, one of the twelve, and the Lord says of him, Satan hath desired to have you, to sift thee as wheat, but I prayed for you that thy faith fail not. and Satan desires every one of the people of God, in plural, that when each come into the situation like Peter was in, they have an interest in the intercession and prayers of our Lord. Our Lord didn't pray that Peter would not betray Him, but that his faith failed not. He came out into that trial, out of that trial, and he was still a believer. He still loved the Lord, he still had his faith, that which Judas did not have. And yet Peter, he said, though all men forsake thee, yet will not I. And yet he had to prove he had not strength in himself.

The Lord is the keeper of his saints. May we remember that, especially in the context of the first part of this text, which is speaking of burdens. That whatever comes upon the people of God, the Lord has undertaken this, it shall not move them out of the way. May our eyes be in the right place, not like Peter's thinking his own sufficiency, but our hope, our trust is in the Lord that keeps his saints and holds them in the way, the only way, the way of life. He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

I want to look then at three main points here. Firstly, what this verse concerns, thy burden. Cast thy burden upon the Lord. The second thing is the direction concerning it. Cast it upon the Lord, Jehovah. The third thing is the promise to those that do so, He shall sustain thee. So what this verse concerns, thy burden, the direction given concerning it, cast it upon the Lord, and the promise to those that do so, He shall sustain thee. So the first thing then is the burden that is to be actually cast upon the Lord. What is the burden? I want to go back to our Lord Jesus Christ and to think of the psalm in the context of the Lord.

The burden that was to be laid upon him. He had laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. We have it set forth as well as a nail, Christ as a nail in a sure place and those hung upon Him, those cups of great quantity and small quantity and that He should be cut off and the burden that was upon Him should fall. The sins of the people of God were laid upon the Lord, and when the Lord was cut off, that burden fell off Him. He took away that burden, He did away with that burden.

Daniel says, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And when we think of the picture of our Lord in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he is pressed down, sweating great drops of blood, where he is praying, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not my will, but thy will be done. And that burden, if we should ever really know our own sin, we could not live under it, we could not bear up under the weight of having our own sin, Some of us have known times that our sins have been brought to our remembrance and laid upon us, and the sight has been overwhelming, has been crushing. If thou, Lord, should mark iniquity, who should stand?

I want to emphasize first, as we're looking and thinking of Christ, the comparison between any burden that his people will bear with any sense of their sinnership, then it is really of no comparison to what Christ actually bore. Because Christ bore the wrath of God for the sins of his people. He bore those sins in all of their way to have them put away.

Whereas as the hymn writer says, we do but taste the cup, he alone did fully drink it up. And so when we have a text that speaks of the burden, we begin with Christ and we begin of the burden of sin that was laid upon him. Those that are awakened, those that are quickened, those that are made to feel and know that they're sinners. In the hymn writer, sinners can say none but they, how precious is the Saviour.

And for the first time in their lives, that sin becomes a burden. Then they are to consider this some fellowship with the Lord in His suffering. the greatness of the weight that he bore that we know enough so that we can have a little idea of what the Lord endured suffering for us. But it wasn't just sin, you might say.

With the Lord also was the burden of all of His people, the Church of God. He says, Thine they were, the Fathers, and Thou gavest them May. The concern for His people, the love for His people, for the Church of God. The Apostle Paul, he says, that what has fallen upon him is the burden of all the churches. He felt the responsibility, the care of the churches, their welfare, and if the Apostle did, how much more our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

And so when we're thinking of this burden that is here, and start first thinking of it in the terms of our Lord. Then we think of Judas here. Our Lord was betrayed. How many of the Lord's dear people have had to walk this path as well? That they've had those that they've walked together in friendship, in years, brothers, in faith, and suddenly there comes something that is divided The enemy is separated between chief brethren, and they've had to walk this path. Our Lord, they all forsook him and fled, and he was left alone. The Apostle Paul says, I pray God, hold it not to their charge. No man stood by me.

And you see with the Apostle Paul, he's having to walk out a similar path to our Lord Jesus Christ. And you and I, will also have to walk that similar path. These things will constitute thy burden. It's spoken of as personal, thy burden. With our Lord Jesus Christ, our sins were made his, his burden. But each man shall bear his own burden. his own soul. Every heart knoweth its own bitterness. A stranger intermedleth not with his joys."

Real religion is very personal and we might think and look upon another and think, well their life's quite easy, they don't have any burdens. Someone said that and thought that in Francis Covell. How is it that you're able to preach so acceptably and so less when you don't have any burdens and trials in your life. And so he just went quietly and he opened the door from his study and there he had a very afflicted son. And that's what he had to contend with all the time. How many of the Lord's people said, well they're healthy, they're strong, they haven't got any trials.

But you don't know what they're caring for, who they're caring for, what burden they have in their families, wife or husband or children, and what things that they're carrying in that way. And it is personal, thy burden. Very often we cannot even share or tell to another what that burden is, because it's personal. With our sins as well, often the sins are the nature of those that are the biggest burden to us, we cannot share them with another. They're so personal, we cannot do it. But when we say, thy burden, sometimes it can come close, you might say, well, isn't that someone else's burden?

Perhaps some of you young ones won't understand this yet, but when you're a parent, then your care, your burden is over your children. But that doesn't cease when they leave home and they get married and they move away and might be even to the other side of the world. And you hear, you learn of their trials and their difficulties. And we remember, we've had to go through these things the same age as they're going through them, and the Lord helped us and guided us, and we recognise that that is their burden, but in one sense it's ours.

Because we feel it, because of the connection, because we love them, because we feel for them in their path, and so that is a burden that perhaps years ago we didn't have. And when afflictions come as well, there is changing things through life. You say, the burden that I have now, I didn't have several years ago. And it may be burdens we had several years ago, they're not a trial to us now.

When we are blessed with grandchildren, then again, that's another burden. Those grandparents, we carry their soul's welfare, their welfare. We pray for them and we feel the weight on us. And when we have thy burden, if we're the Lord's people, we don't just go on and so on. That concerns them, it's not touching us at all.

We bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ, and in that way it becomes our burden. And when we think of this with our Lord Jesus Christ, His people, what is their burden, becomes His burden. How does it become His burden? In our text. It sets forth how it becomes. his burden in God's appointed way. But before we go on for that, perhaps another burden.

When we have an exercise, certainly when I was exercised on the ministry, that was a burden I carried for some 13 years. And the Lord's people do have burdens in that way. Whether for a husband or for a wife, or for something the Lord has laid upon their heart, that is a burden that He has said would be fulfilled. It's a pleasant thing to look back and say it has. And we marry when My wife left her parents, and I said to them, I believe two things. One, that I would be called into the Christian ministry. I'd already been exercised ten years in it.

And the other would be that we wouldn't stay in Australia, we'd be brought back here. What I didn't tell them was that I believed I'd be brought back to a pastorate. I didn't tell my dear wife that. Lost all hope, really, of coming back because she said, well, no one's been called from the other side of the world to a pastor here. Well, we only had six years in Australia. We were brought back. I was brought back to a pastor.

I was brought into the ministry three years over there, and then over here. And it came to pass. But in the lead up to it, there is the burden, there is the bringing of it to the Lord, there's the carrying that burden. I remember coming over here feeling very, very low at one time at East Beckham, and our Uncle Gordon Seymour was preaching. And it was a time that I was engaged to my wife there. And he preached with the word, take this child and nurse it for me. Well, people thought, well, that's referring to his wife-to-be.

But no, in my heart, it was the burden, the exercise of the ministry. Nurse it for me. Carry that burden for me. And wait my time. And the Lord gives those encouragements. But these things are. They are a burden, a burden that sometimes is really crushing, really feeling. Other times it's as if it's not there at all. You think, well, it's finished, it's stopped. But then it comes up again. And these are some of these ways that I trust I've proved myself as walking forward. carrying something. That's the idea here, isn't it? Carrying something. Now there's another interpretation, another reading.

If you look back to the original of this word, it is a gift, gift in providence. When we realize that God has appointed our lives, and he said that in the world ye shall have tribulation, ye must through much tribulation enter the kingdom, then these burdens, they don't just come by chance, they are appointed or they are gifted, they are given to an individual for a specific purpose for them to walk out for them to cast upon the Lord, for them to be sustained in, for them to have a token from the Lord. A real help to us, even in the most difficult, hard cases we might walk in, to be able to discern, God has seen fit to give me this burden, to give me this trial, this affliction, that in itself will be a help. Thy burden, thy gift, what God has given to you.

Now I may not have mentioned specifically what your burden is, but I hope perhaps enough to get the The idea of it, because you will know what you are carrying. What is a concern? What weighs upon you? What is a burden? So what are we to do with that burden?

What is the direction that is given here? It's helpful to be clear on the burden, but then also the direction, the practical part of it. cast it upon the Lord, cast thy burden upon the Lord. How do we cast it upon the Lord? We go back to the Lord Jesus Christ again. What did he do with his burden? Three times, praying in the garden, pressed down.

If it be possible, let this cup pass from me, nevertheless not my will, but thy will be done in prayer. That's how it is cast. Some say if you cast something, you let go of it. In one sense it is to let the burden be borne by another, but in one sense it will be something that we constantly are prying over. I fear that if we just use the idea of cast and you say, well I've done it once, I've got to then trust and I don't need to make that a matter of prayer anymore because I've just cast it and I've let go of it. But I have proved this, it is going again and again and our Lord Those three times, that's not vain repetition. He said the same words you say. Saying the words, same words, doesn't make it vain repetition.

That was a real burden. And each time he went, it was a real burden. And we must in that way. go in prayer. We think of Jehoshaphat. He had those of Ammon, Moab, Mount Seir come against him, great company. And he immediately takes it to the Lord, tells him about it. Neither will know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. He cast that burden upon the Lord. They all waited. Then the Lord spoke through the prophet. and said that they need not to fight in that battle, the Lord would fight for them. But the thing is, he took it to prayer, the same as what Hezekiah did and Isaiah did, when Sennacherib was threatening Judah and was coming against them. He spreads the letter before the Lord.

How many times have we done that? I often find it helpful at home Now we might sit in the lounge, my wife and I, and we'll be discussing things and going over burdens or trials, and then we come to the evening hour of worship, and instead of rehearsing it all again, we may lay it before the Lord like this, Lord thou hast heard all what we have said. Listen, hearken to all that we have discussed and said together. And it's good to be able to do that. Sometimes it's like they're spreading a letter or spreading a conversation, spreading a situation before the Lord. It's not great words, great eloquence. Before they call, I will answer.

The Lord knows that He has ordained this way of bringing His people to Him And as it were, transferring that burden from them to him. A burden shared is a burden halved, is a saying. And we are exalted to bear one another's burdens. So fulfill the law of Christ. You think of Daniel in that way.

Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, he knew he had a dream, but he couldn't remember what it was. And his own magicians, they couldn't tell him what it was. He said to them, you tell me the dream and I will know that you can tell me the interpretation thereof. And because they couldn't, he ordered all the wise men to be killed in his kingdom.

So it would have come to Daniel and his friends as well. And when Daniel inquired, when they came to seek them out, and he was told what the matter was, Then he sought time of the King. How did he use that time? He goes to his friends, he tells his friends about the situation and they make it a matter of prayer. And the Lord appears to him and reveals to him the secret. And he prays and thanks God, praises God. And he's able to tell the King the truth and their lives are spared. But they take it to the Lord. and he shares it with others, a prayer meeting if you like, with others.

Queen Esther did the same. She asked Mordecai, she said, you gather your people, I will gather those in the court, we will fast. We will lay these things before the Lord and if I go into the king, if I perish, I perish. She then said, but it was laid before the Lord. We think of Jacob, he comes back, he's got the Lord's promise on his side, he was told that he should go back and go back to his brethren and to his father, but he still comes with 400 men.

Jacob is distressed, what does he do? He puts those of his households over the brook and he goes over and he's left alone. They wrestled a man with him. to the breaking of the day. I will not let thee go except thou bless me." A wrestled blessing. And on the back of it there's this burden of the promise of the Lord to bring him back, but his brother seeking to destroy him.

All these things seem so contrary. And of course later on, when for 22 years his son Joseph was, we thought he was dead. And then he was going to lose Simeon and lose Benjamin. He said all these things were against me. The burdens that dear man had to carry through life. But you know the Lord sustained him and sometimes we can only just cry and groan before the Lord. And so we Think of the Apostle Paul, with the thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan. He'd been blessed, abundantly blessed, and the Lord gave him something to balance the blessing. That's something to remember, isn't it? How many of our trials are balancing blessings?

M. Ryder says the heart uplifts with God's own gifts, makes even gracious now. So the Lord gives something to balance it. And Paul, he prayed three times, that that be taken away. But the Lord said, no, my grace is sufficient for thee.

That thorn, that trial, that would still remain. But what a direction here, to cast thy burden upon the Lord. Lay it before Him in prayer. Bring it so that it becomes the Lord's burden, that He carries it, He bears it. God has appointed prayer, especially for times when you and I have a burden.

And when we feel, I cannot stand another hour, I cannot bear this, I cannot keep going with this, this is too heavy for me, this is too difficult for me, then we have to remember this text. What we are to do with it? We cast it upon the Lord. A specific instance in the Word of God, so that when we come into that situation, The Word of God says, now this is what you must do. This is the way. This is the time to pray. Not to faint, not to give up, not to be despondent, but to pray. So unto Lord Thirdly, may the promise to those who do so And the promise is, he shall sustain thee. And I want to really note here what it does not say. Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall remove it. It doesn't say that. And you might think, well, if we cast it upon the Lord, then I don't have that burden anymore. No, the very text implies you still have that burden.

But He will sustain you under it. He will support you under it. He will enable you to carry it. Go back to the Apostle Paul. He still had the thorn in the flesh. Now we don't know, haven't told specifically what it is, but from other scriptures, especially when he speaks to the Corinthians, that they would even pluck out their own eyes to give him, or when he didn't recognize the high priest, we have indication it was to do with his sight. But he had to bear that.

But the Lord said, my grace is sufficient for thee. And often I love to see Paul's reaction to that. He doesn't say, Lord, I would much rather it be taken away than just having grace to sustain me under it. He said, much rather than will I glory in my infirmity that when I am weak, then am I strong. In other words, he said, I would rather have that burden and the grace and help to bury constantly than to not be having it.

We need to remember this. The world's idea is let's get out of trouble. Let's get out of tribulation. Let's escape it. The Lord says no. This is brought for a purpose of reason and I will sustain thee. You will have from day to day that help and grace and a reason to keep coming to the throne of grace for fresh supplies of grace, I love those words, he giveth more grace and graceful grace. He gives the grace of the spirit of prayer and supplication and then he gives the grace of support and strength and help and ability to continue. I believe I've proved these things right the way through life.

I was thinking when our children were I think, I suppose one and two, and she's just going to leave the house for work and looking at my dear wife and realizing she wasn't at all well. She just rose and I said, you're not well. I can't go. I must look after the children.

And she had postnatal depression. She went straight for three days in bed in darkness. And that depression, in and out, was for 10 years, even when we came over here. the windows of light in her, but a sudden trial, but so many helps through those ten years. And at the end of it, I had a dream, and I was praying in that dream, praying for her to be healed, and I was so ashamed of my prayers. They were so poor prayers, but in my dream I dreamt she was getting healed, she was better. Within two weeks she was, and she hasn't gone back into that deep depression since. But it was a trial for those times, and of course there are many other trials, afflictions too. But I approve this aspect of not the burden taken away, but being sustained under it, and to be held under it.

And also teachers, we read in Isaiah, thy teachers shall not be removed in the corner any more, thine eyes shall see thy teachers. Thine ears shall hear word behind thee saying, this is the way, walking in it, when you turn to the right hand, when you turn to the left. Think from Isaiah 28. But it is that the new covenant is that they shall all be taught of God.

And it is through trials, through burdens, that we are taught things that we wouldn't have known any other way. The cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me and I will hear it, says Moses. And the Lord says the same, or the burden that is too hard for you to bear, our Lord says, come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden. and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls." You get an idea of a yoke. You know, the Word of God says you're not meant to yoke together an ox and an ass, because they're different strengths. It wouldn't be fair on the weaker animal.

But the Lord says to his people that he'll be yoked together with them. and he won't pull them along at a greater rate than they can sustain. Now that's another thing where Jacob said to Esau when they met peaceably and Esau wanted to go before and he wanted to go with the flocks and Jacob said no. He says if they are overdriven but one day they shall die. Jacob knew how vulnerable, how delicate they were And Esau didn't. Well, the Lord knows His people.

He will not suffer them to be afflicted more than they can bear or to be laid on them more than they can bear. He measures out our pains. And we're to remember that really comes under this. You shall never suffer the righteous to make move. They won't fall under the burden. That's another one of the laws in the for Israel, wasn't it?

If you see your neighbor's ass falling under a burden, thou must not forbear to help him, thou wilt help him. Even if it's thine enemy, thou shalt help him. And if the Lord sees his people struggling under their burdens and cares, will he not help them? Does the Holy Spirit not help our infirmities? helping us to pray, we know not to pray for as we ought, asperabateth intercession with groanings which cannot be uttered. And so we have this promise, He shall sustain thee. So we need to watch this, don't we? Watch and pray. How are we sustained? How are we helped? How are we strengthened? Instead of looking at Is it taken away? Is it removed?

Our emphasis now is what helps we've had, what strengths, what blessings, what fellowship it has given us with the Lord, how we have been sustained, a word here, a word there, help through the ministry, some strength to the body, that we felt was more than natural to be strengthened, or strength of mind, or perhaps a friend coming over and a means used to help in that way. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity, but a word of spirit who can bear. It's a blessed thing to have a strong spirit, or be able to cope You know, again, last December when my dear wife had a car accident, the first few days I felt quite strengthened.

But of course there was early hours and long hours and then it come to the Saturday and I just collapsed up. I couldn't hold myself together at all. My dear son, he phoned up and he knew immediately. He said, I'm coming. And he came straight away from Salisbury. and what a help, what a strength, I needed that.

But it made me, looking back, realise what a blessing those times when we might have a trouble, a trial, an unexpected trial, a bereavement, and we are sustained. We have got the mental ability, capability to do it, and there's only times when that fails us and we just can't continue it. But then we realize what help we've had before. Sometimes we take for granted the helps and sustaining of the Lord. So maybe watch this and see the Lord fulfill His word, the burden, thy burden, and we follow the direction and cast it upon the Lord. And maybe we've got many burdens at the same time. but see how the Lord sustains us, keeps us going, helps us from day to day, strengthen up and understand. May these things lead us to the Lord, strengthen our faith and help us to hold on our way. Amen.

Cast thy burden upon the LORD

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What does the Bible say about casting burdens upon the Lord?

How do we know God sustains the righteous?

Why is it important for Christians to cast their burdens on God?

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Cast thy burden upon the LORD

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What does the Bible say about casting burdens upon the Lord?

How do we know God sustains the righteous?

Why is it important for Christians to cast their burdens on God?

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